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Measuring Improvements in Learning Outcomes : Best Practices to Assess the Value-Added of Schools

2008

Value-added estimates are a significant improvement upon measures of school performance currently used in most education systems across OECD countries. They provide a fundamentally more accurate and valuable quantitative basis for school improvement planning, policy development and for enacting...

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Denmark: Efficient e-Government for Smarter Public Service Delivery

2010

relation to a number of areas, including the impact of e-government on public sector modernisation and efficiency efforts, the …

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Reforming Russian Infrastructure for Competition and Efficiency

2001

Infrastructure sectors -- particularly railroads, telecommunications, electricity and natural gas -- are vital in providing necessities of life to the Russian Federation’s citizens and key inputs into the rest of the economy. A top priority of the current government in Russia is to reform the...

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The development effectiveness of food aid : does tying matter?

Clay, Edward (contributor) - 2006

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Harmonising Donor Practices for Effective Aid Delivery, Volume 2 : Budget Support, Sector Wide Approaches and Capacity Development in Public Financial Management

2006

The international community is committed to helping partner countries meet the Millennium Development Goal of halving global poverty by 2015. Effective use of scarce official development assistance is one important contribution to this end. The good practices presented here represent a set of...

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Eco-Efficiency

2008

This report evaluates strategies to improve the efficiency with which environmental resources are used to meet human … energy efficiency in the region of 10% to 40%. The full potential for improving eco-efficiency is much greater, but it is …

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Political Advisors and Civil Servants in European Countries

2007

While defining appropriate roles for political advisers is a highly relevant topic in most democracies and especially in EU NMS, as well as candidate and CARDS countries today, surprisingly little comparative information exists. To fill this gap, in Autumn 2005, the Sigma Programme launched a...

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Addressing Tax Risks Involving Bank Losses

2010

The financial and economic crisis had a devastating impact on bank profits, with loss-making banks reporting global … commercial losses of around USD 400 billion in 2008. This comprehensive report sets the market context for bank losses and … to bank losses from the perspective of both banks and revenue bodies; outlines the incentives that give rise to those …

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Bank Profitability: Methodological Country Notes 2000

2000

Trends in bank profitability and factors affecting it are major indicators of changes in the state of health of … national banking systems. OECD statistics published annually under the title Bank Profitability -- Financial Statements of … Banks, provide a unique tool for analysing developments in bank profitability in twenty-nine Member countries …

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Bank Profitability: Methodological Country Notes 2002

2003

This publication complements Bank Profitability: Financial Statements of Banks. The notes included in this volume were …

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